• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    Ah, the Geronocrats. Always been a disappointment throughout my entire life, before and after I became eligible to vote.

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    Americans are the biggest cowards in the world.

    What a fucking timeline, this is incredible 😳

    Edit: and I don’t mean this in an insulting manner, I truly feel bad for them. Barbarians are taking over the Rome, everyone is fucked…

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    It’s just like in the playground; almost everybody want to stand up to the bully, but nobody has the guts. They are afraid the bully will call them names or attack. And when finally one does stand up, the others cowers in a corner.

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    Revolution in the streets everyone! Let’s go if they don’t want change we will give them change.

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    How much proof do you need to understand they are working in concert to usher in an imperial fascist police state. The Democrats don’t oppose the Republicans, they oppose YOU. To them, YOU are the threat.

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      I think, given the huge leap you’ve made, I’m gonna need a little more proof.

      Hanlon says hello.

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        In the context of defending our country from the ongoing fascist takeover, Democrats being too stupid to understand that they need to do something about it might be worse than actively supporting it so I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

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          If Democrats had actual power to do something about it then you’d have a great argument, but they’ve had 50 or less in the senate for more than a decade and Trump is in power with a plurality election result.

          Even the impeachment trial never would have convinced 20 GOP senators to cross the aisle to remove Dump from office, it’s better to save it for later.

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            Stop making excuses. They have the filibuster and have used it once, against nothing.

            They voted to remove David Hogg but not trump.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        [Looks at Congress not doing shit to Trump’s constant misuse of his powers]

        Yeah sure, big leap. I’m sure they’re actually working on stopping him out of public view, just trust them to do the right thing next time.

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    Rep. Al Green’s impeachment resolution was tabled on a 344-79 vote, with 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans to kill the measure.

    The only time Dems and Republicans unite, is to say Israel is totally cool and we should give them more money…

    I shouldn’t have to explain why that’s an issue.

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        Someone else told me the same thing earlier on a different comment…

        And I just gotta disagree.

        I’ve been criticizing Israel’s monetary relationship with American politicians for about 20 years now. Before Facebook was invented even.

        Never been “cancelled”.

        I didn’t want to explain it because I was being lazy. You can 100% talk about why it’s an issue, especially here. If you find yourself being “cancelled” then you may want to take a step back and re-evaluate what you are saying and looking into the validity of it.

        I mean, right now we’re on one of the major communities on our instance, openly discussing it…

        No one is being “cancelled”

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          Except for maybe these folks plus the people we don’t know about in El Salvador

          Mahmoud Khalil • Syrian‑born Palestinian and legal U.S. permanent resident. • Detained by ICE on March 8, 2025 in New York—reportedly without a warrant—under a rarely used immigration law citing alleged national-security concerns tied to his activism. • Held at LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana, for 104 days, separated from his family—including missing the birth of his son. • Released on June 20, 2025, after a federal judge deemed his detention unconstitutional, finding no flight risk or danger.

          Mohsen Mahdawi • Palestinian U.S. green‑card holder and Columbia University student. • Arrested by ICE on April 14, 2025, at a citizenship interview in Vermont . • His detention prompted immediate habeas corpus filings; held in St. Albans, Vermont. • Released on April 30, 2025, after a federal judge determined his detention likely aimed to suppress free speech.

          Plus this:

          https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

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      Hogg is a threat to the oligarchy whereas Trump, the entire Republican party, and most of the Democratic party are complicit in supporting it.

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    Roll call for this vote if you want to see how your representative voted and perhaps give them some feedback.

    EDIT: The Clerk’s website went down earlier. When it came back up, it looks like they’re returning the wrong results. The vote to table the impeachment resolution was roll call #175, the number you see in the URL. It looks like it’s now displaying the results for roll call #178 on the page, a vote to adjourn. I’ve updated the link to an alternate view that seems to be returning the results for the correct vote, but please check the title of page in case this gets broken again.

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      They’re all complicit

      What?

      79 voted for it, if you don’t think that’s fucking huge, you don’t understand how bad it’s been

      Shit is improving, quickly even.

      But like ~20% of the House openly and publicly going against Israel? Thats significant and the trend looks set to continue.

      And I shouldn’t have to say this…

      But ~80% is less than 100%, so no, it’s not “all”.

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          Have you considered that my comment might have been intended to be the entire lyrics to 80s Belgium techno anthem Pump up the Jams?

          Sometimes we have to take words at face value.

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            But that would change the entirety of what you wrote. Not the interpretation of a single word that is the same in both instances.

            Like, obviously it’s not 100% of people in gov. But seriously, it’s the whole fucking thing. Rotten to the core.

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          Yep…and it didn’t do much, because “impeach” does NOT mean “remove from presidency”. It can lead to that, but it’s like saying being written up at work is the same as being fired.

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              Because impeaching is step one in removing. Procedure matters in these things. The one President who was almost convicted (Nixon) left when it became clear that public opinion of him was going to force the Senate’s hand to convict him. It’s all political, but it’s the only legal mechanism that exists.

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                I really don’t think Trump cares about public opinion.

                The government doesn’t work that way anymore. We’re not gonna Woodward and Bernstein our way out of this.

                Also: since when does Trump care what’s legal?

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    The political system is completely fucked. I think going grassroots with direct action is currently the best way to both resist, and build horizontal decentralized power that isn’t prone to corruption.

    1. find local communities and get involved to make connections
    2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
    3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

    This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

    Union Suggestions:

    1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

    If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

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      Oh yeah cause it went so well for Chile. There was a government turnover and it fragmented the political parties so much that no one can agree on anything anymore.

      Oh and the new people in power are learning by improvising.

      Source: I am from Chile.

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          If by coup you mean the rich trying to get richer, yeah the resistance worked.

          The problem came afterwards, when the people were handed the power to actually change something it became a circus.

          So the rich didn’t get the chance to make ridiculous changes like in the US right now. But all we were left with was status quo.

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        I don’t disagree that it ended badly, but had the movement not been pacified by the government’s bait of reform and a new constitution, it could’ve been revolutionary.

        Your people showed the incredible potential of collective power and collective civil disobedience. The documentary shows both the victories, and the failures to learn from, just as Hong Kong did.

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    The law is clear. It doesn’t matter if it’s politically convenient or likely to succeed. If the President breaks the law, which Trump clearly has, they must be impeached.